This Saturday 16th December protesters will again target local MP Stephen Crabb demanding that the UK government stops supporting Israel’s genocide on Gaza.
The protest will assemble on the Old Bridge in Haverfordwest at 2pm this Saturday 16th before marching through Bridge Street and up to Stephen Crabb’s Constituency office on Upper Market Street where further speeches will be heard.
The demonstration will take place as part of coordinated local rallies around the UK this weekend following hundreds of such demonstrations since the War on Gaza began. National demonstrations have also attracted numbers of up to one million people at a time in London in recent weeks.
Organisers: Stop The War Pembrokeshire and Solidarity with Palestine Pembrokeshire said: “The need to join the ever growing voices of opposition to Israel’s unfolding war crimes against Palestine is becoming more pressing by the day.”
Since October 7 over 18,000 Palestinians have been killed and 50,000 injured in Israeli attacks, 20,000 of these children. Most of northern Gaza has been reduced to rubble. More than 7,729 Palestinian children, 5,133 women and 296 Palestinian Health Workers have been killed while the UN Relief and Workers Agency reports that nearly 1.9 million Palestinians have been displaced by the war on Gaza which has also seen 132 United Nations Staff members Killed.
As if this wasn’t tragedy enough, half of all Palestinians in Gaza are now starving and with extreme shortages of sanitary and medical supplies while Israel has repeatedly targeted and killed journalists and their families. 272 Palestinians have also been killed by Israeli forces and settlers in the occupied west bank in the last nine weeks.
This collective punishment of Palestinians within the open air prison which is Gaza, now shows most of the identifiable indicators globally recognised to signify an unfolding genocide. Not only is our Government complicit in this genocide they are actively supporting it in the form of military aid, while UK arms companies’ profits soar as they sell a plethora or weaponry to Israel.
The protest will aim to apply pressure on local Members of Parliament and the government to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, and to urge Israel to lift the siege that has deprived the people of Gaza of essential resources such as medical supplies, food, electricity, and water.
These actions by Israel are a clear violation of international law, and the protesters demand accountability, justice and an immediate end to Israel’s genocide on Gaza.
Adam Johannes, a spokesperson for Stop the War Coalition in Wales said: “We are protesting in support of the right of Palestinians to live freely in their own land rather than being subjected to military occupation, siege, refugee camps and exile.”
“According to a YouGov poll, 76% of the public favour an immediate ceasefire, but MPs overwhelmingly oppose calling for one. Welsh politics is now at the crossroads with only 5 out of Wales’ 40 MPs supporting a ceasefire now”
Afia Ahmed, one of the protestors, emphasised, “Israel is engaging in a genocide before the eyes of the world, and they do so with impunity. The words from the Israeli regime are steeped in Islamophobia and genocidal intent, yet the UK and USA remain silent on calling for a ceasefire. These so-called leaders will not be forgiven by history. Millions worldwide are protesting, striking, and demanding an end to the Gaza massacre. We’ll persist in our vigils and protests in Pembrokeshire until our voices are acknowledged. We urge our MP, who is meant to be our voice in Westminster, to advocate for what we demand – the ending of the Israeli occupation, the end to the decades long blockade of Gaza and the West Bank and the freedom of the Palestinian people.”
Nine-year-old Aklimah Ahmed passionately expressed, “I just want Israel to stop killing children! You cant justify it by saying terrorists hide in schools with children. You would not bomb a school in Israel if a member of Hamas was in there. You would not bomb a hospital in Israel if a few people from Hamas were hiding underneath it. So why do you think you can kill thousands of people in Gaza to try to get to a very few people? It doesn’t make any sense and it’s not fair! If I understand this as a 9 year old kid then why doesn’t my MP get it and why doesn’t my Prime Minister understand?”
Weekly vigils have been taking place in Haverfordwest at 7.00pm every Friday since the attacks on Gaza began and are expected to continue until calls for a ceasefire are answered.
All details of Saturday’s demonstration can be found at the Facebook event.
For more information or media inquiries, please contact: Patrick Connellan on 07973378394
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Shock horror, not a single word of condemnation of Hamas. Not a single word about the hostages. Llanelli standard should do better than just publishing the crank writings of anonymous online crusaders
Jon James why would they? It’s an article by Pembs stop the war.
Jonathan Williams why would they not want the return of innocent hostages taken in a terrorist attack? You think you can have a ceasefire without returning them? As often with “stop the war” it’s only some wars. The crank in charge of it is happy to project Putin based lies about Ukraine, such as it’s all NATO’s fault. Why would I expect anything better when Israel is involved.
Jon James it’s not article by the Llanelli Standard though.
You can write an article and submit it if you feel different.
Llanelli standard published it. It is their article. And it’s not the first time I’ve got yet have published articles from these cranks, like the last one where they published one about how they were going to protest M&S, which lets be honest, is racist as fuck. Their justification? A Jew once owned it and decades ago supported Israel. Bunch of racist cranks
Jon James no it’s not their article. Their article would say who wrote it.
They publish press releases and articles which are sent to them and they don’t alter them to their opinion.
Write an article, send it to them and ask for feedback.
Jonathan Williams in no way does the website imply it’s a press release or article by anyone other than Llanelli Standard. And if they publish it, it’s their article. If I took a complaint to the standards agency (im not) do you think that argument would stand up? It’s published on their website. They own it. Would they publish an article without challenge by BNP? Britain First? Etc? I doubt it and rightfully so.
Jon James so the bit that says for media enquiries please contact such a such not give it away then?
All the information is there so there are no anonymous online crusaders.
You can complain to the standards agency if you like.
They might not publish an article by far right groups because they may contain racist language or false information.
You want to counter it, write an article and send it to them.
Jonathan Williams protesting at a company because of it’s historic deceased Jewish owner is pretty damn racist and they were happy to publish that.
Jon James have you got a link to the article?
Jon James I’ve just read the article and can’t find anything in it.
What exactly is the racist content? Feel free to copy and paste the sentences.
Jonathan Williams Jewish groups have repeatedly said that the targeting of M&S specifically because of it’s deceased Jewish owner is racist. It’s not whether you find it’s racist, it’s whether British Jews would, and many I know would find it racist as do I.
Jon James it doesn’t say that in the article. They list lots of reasons for protesting there.
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